Paper Title :Social Media and its Effects on Young People in Our Society: How Self-Esteem Change When Exposed to Social Media Postings

Author :Young Yoon Won

Article Citation :Young Yoon Won ,
(2018 ) " Social Media and its Effects on Young People in Our Society: How Self-Esteem Change When Exposed to Social Media Postings " ,
International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) ,
pp. 87-93,
Volume-4,Issue-9

Abstract: The fact that little had been discussed about the deleterious effects of social media points to need of examining
various angles of social media to identify their inherent problems. Therefore, this research was set off to uncover what groups
in our society are more susceptible than others to social media and its contents. Having administered a translated Rosenberg’s
Self-esteem Scale (RSES) together with other survey questions to 103 young people in Korea, correlation analysis,
independent samples t-test, and regression analysis were conducted. The results revealed that gender, socioeconomic status
(SES) were primary factors associated with the social media users’ self-esteem, and the two variables (gender and SES)
accounted for the difference in self-esteem. Finally, the same RSES was administered to the participants before and after they
watched an upsetting social media posting, and a paired sample t-test was conducted. Though no difference was found in the
overall self-esteem score, the participants showed a change in self-esteem with one question in RSES when the questionnaire
was broken down and analyzed.
Index Terms - Gender, Rosenberg’s Self-esteem Scale, Self-esteem, Social Media.